The Labour Party won the 2005 UK general election with 35.3% of the popular British vote. The Conservative Party was just a few points behind with points behind at 32.3% of the popular vote, but because of the first past the post voting system, the Labour Party had a significant majority with 356 parliamentary seats […]
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The Informer
Exellent site by the way
I’m sorry, but where is the Welsh Poll?
That’s a fair question Rhys.
When I was breaking the poll up (it originally had 25 political parties covering the whole UK) so it would fit on the sidebar menu (top left) to generate more visitors to the site voting in the poll, I decided since there’s only one extra party in Wales (Plaid Cymru Party) relative to England I could leave that party in the main poll.
I know it’s not perfect, but the three polls covers more options than most polls provide. Many polls include the main three parties and everything else under other.
David
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David
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Well David, you’ve certainly shown your anti-democratic colours, maybe democarcy will prevail at the polls in may, but it certainly won’t on this site.
I just hope others aren’t as blinkered and as narrow minded as you.
sweep it under the rug.
There you go and not a single mention of another political party.
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You can see how NOT popular the BNP really are if you read the latest Guardian/ICM poll which puts the BNP on just 1% of the vote, so the BNP certainly do NOT command the power the rabid BNP supporters here claim they are.
Its unfortunte you had been forced into a corner by the BNP people here and stopped them posting on this page of your site
Whats there probrlem they still have the hundreds of other pages on the site to coment on why do they need to fill every site with BNP trash talk
They was ruining this site for eveyone else im glad you stoped them
Josh
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There’s a large poll we are running on Clouwd for the general election. Strangely, Conservatives are ahead on ours. Equally strangely, UKIP have a similar percentage.
Have a look General Election Poll
Mike
That’s the sort of percentages I was expecting with my general election poll, but BNP supporters really threw the poll off for a while: BNP had 30+% of the vote at one point through a combination of cheating and a lot of online campaigning to get BNP supporters from the BNP’s main website to vote here!
You might want to keep an eye on your numbers now as there’s a fair number of BNP supporters here and now they can’t manipulate my poll, yours could be next. I had 800 odd BNP votes from proxies for example!
That polls numbers are:
Number Of Votes 2,269
conservative 45.4%
labour 24.9%
liberaldemocrat 11.4%
ukip 4.1%
bnp 3.4%
undecided 1.9%
green 0.9%
David
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The BNP are damaging that poll as well look at the trend page suddnly BNp get there best day a few days after the poll was linked here they got more votes yesterday that any other party
Josh
How can you categorically say that a surge in votes for a particular party was actually caused by supporters of said party? It’s possible that it may have been part of some campaign, but it could just have easily been mischief makers (not necessarily belonging to the BNP).
Thats how the BNP are online i seen them on facebook and here and other places cheating on polls and making up lies
The cloud site agrees the BnP had more than 20 votes yesterday now 6 are left so cloud deletes lots of BNP votes for cheating as well
Josh
The cloud poll is more like what the actual result will look like I feel with the BNP under 4% of the vote and the Tories around 40%
As a Labour voter it saddens me to agree with you on the Conservative percentage.
My poll if off because of all the BNP votes. If you remove about 3,000 of the Other Parties votes (that’s the 1,700 odd BNP votes and the 1,000 Monster Raving Loony party votes) and work out the percentages with what’s left we get:
Conservative : 32%
Labour : 28%
Lib Dems : 20%
UKIP : 8%
Greens : 5%
Still probably not what the popular vote will be (it’s an online poll), but heck of a lot closer to what you’d expect.
I don’t see the Conservatives breaking 40% on the day, (35% maybe if the smaller parties don’t do well) too many traditional Labour voters don’t like David Cameron or the Conservatives to vote against Labour even though they aren’t happy with Labour.
I can see a lot of voters who switched from Conservative to Labour when Labour took power from the Conservatives not ready to go back to the Conservatives (that’s almost a tongue twister :-)). Labours not done enough wrong and the Conservatives not done enough right for a big swing IMHO (Conservatives on 40% would be big).
Not too well off people have done quite well under Labour and until the recession the biggest issue with Labour was they went to war in Iraq. I can’t see many voters (not a large percentage anyway) voting for the Conservatives ONLY over the Iraq war since the Conservatives would have gone to war as well. MPs expenses, they were all at it, so again who is going to vote Conservative for that reason?
David
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On reflection I would go along with your assessment David, Tories around the 32 to 35% mark, I don’t think as you rightly pointed out that the Labour party have made enough of a serious hash of things to develop a swing that would leave the Tories on 40%
I voted labour, once , in the first election after I left the RAF in 1948, the 5 years after that tought me a lesson, since then I have ALWAYS voted conservative through out my life, and you can easily guess my age, I always knew witch side my bread was buttered on, now at my age who ever wins to govern Great Briton will not be able to give a slice with the butter side up
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If you are one of “The Few” (RAF pilots during World War II) referred to in Winston Churchill’s quote:
“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”
Thank You
David
Good economic news for Britain, we are finally out of recession. 0.1% growth, low but still growth.
David
And earlier than forecast by the Gov, they expected the 1st Q of 2010 for the recovery to start, so it may be a small start it is looking good so far.
Just hope the growth can be sustained through Q1
Would have been much higher growth if we still had decent manufacturing industries like Germany has: their manufacturing industries are growing again.
Previous governments (Labour and Conservatives) have failed to protect our manufacturing base and it really shows when comparing us to a country like Germany. We used to have some great industries in Britain, damn shame we’ve pretty much lost them!
Anyone understand why/how Germany has maintained it’s manufacturing base and we haven’t?
David
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We do actually have a bigger manufacturing base that people give the country credit for, most people see manufacturing as heavy industry etc.
But Britain are leading players in specialist areas of Science and Technology the silent manufacturing base of the UK goes unnoticed.
I admit I was thinking along the lines of heavy industry above (steel industry, shipyards etc…), should have said our traditional manufacturing industries.
I know Britain’s moved on in the world and that’s a good thing, but we’ve also become way too dependant on money from the financial sector and as the financial sector crashed during the credit crunch/recession our growth has mirrored this dependence.
Germany is strong financially as well, but from what I understand it’s not lost it’s core traditional manufacturing industries like we have (their decline is slower) which is why it’s recovering faster than we are.
I understand as we move into new industries (like renewable energy) that require a work force with new skills our older industries are going to tend to move to the third world countries where labor costs are much cheaper, but governments should be protecting it’s people as much as possible from these changes and keeping what our country does as diverse as possible to prevent it being dependant on one sector.
Nothing wrong with having a very strong financial sector (it’s very good in fact), but it would be better if we had the strong financial sector and a strong manufacturing base (and I’m thinking heavy industries) as well. I don’t see why we couldn’t have had both if Germany has managed it?
My background is science (biotechnology) and I think our move into science and technology is also a very good thing (it’s the future). Jump 30 years from now when we’ll have to have a significant amount of our energy from renewable sources, British businesses are going to be leading the way.
David
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I think we need to always keep in mind that the traditional industry of Britain will eventually decay anyway as our “traditional” sectors were coal, steal etc, renewable energy and scitech are the future and Britain has quietly been building up a power base in these sectors over a number of years.
And we should be investing in these new techs and raining British people to work in these industries. Leave other manufacturing to developing countries etc and concentrate our resources and cash on the future techs that the world will be needing and Britain will remain a strong country.
We need to remain a progressive country and re starting “old” manufacturing bases for me would be the wrong thing to do and Britain won’t be positioned strongly enough in future markets if we don’t get ahead of the game (or rather stay ahead of the game as we are currently).
As for the financial sector yes we do rely on the financial sector too much which is why I think more investment should be put in to new tech, maybe by way of Government buying shares in some of these companies thus giving them a nice chunk of working capitol to push development ahead of the competition and also giving the Government a return on that investment for a long term.
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“We need to remain a progressive country and re starting “old” manufacturing bases for me would be the wrong thing to do and Britain won’t be positioned strongly enough in future markets if we don’t get ahead of the game (or rather stay ahead of the game as we are currently).”
I agree with you completely, I was talking historically that Conservative and Labour governments have failed to protect our traditional manufacturing industries as much as I think they could/should have (like Germany have apparently managed to achieve).
I agree it would be foolish to try to go back in time, but we should in the future protect what we have left and if possible grow those industries alongside the new industries.
I can’t think of any good reason why shipyards, a traditional British manufacturing industry, should ever be neglected as they have been in Britain in recent history. With the world becoming more and more dependant on trade there will always be an increasing need for new ships for transporting trade and the leisure industry. We used to be the best ship builders in the world, it was foolish not to protect that industry as best we could. Ship building is a skilled industry and so fits in well with how Britain should be moving forward in the world today.
I’m not thinking protectionism here, but tax breaks etc… to help useful industries to flourish in Britain. Not a manufacturing industry, but look how Canada encourages film makers and animators, more and more programs I watch on TV are filmed on location in Canada.
PostMan Pat is created in Canada (or was it Japan?). Our youngest son (13) might go into animation as a career (loves drawing anime and manga and we are that concerned we’ve encouraged him to learn Japanese so he has options outside Britain when older.
David
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In terms of shipyards I would have to agree, the Government could easily support British Shipyards by ensuring they get contracts with our own Navy to build ships, and by offering incentives to the big cruise companies to have their ships built here.
That wouldn’t be protectionist that would be using world wide influence and promoting ship building correctly around the world, which I feel is one of the Labour Governments failings to correctly market British Shipyards to the wider world and get some of these big contracts.
Our next Government should set up the United Kingdom Marketing Department and pull in marketing specialist from industry to put together effective marketing campaigns for the UK and stop using outside companies, get the best working for the Government directly, yes it will be expensive but consider the returns in terms of income for UK business, if business take increases Tax increases and the Government gets it’s costs covered.
I think it’s about time our politicians stopped thinking they can actually effectively run everything without the using the talents of people we have out their in the country, the expertise we have should be put to better use.
It just needs a Government that can think out side of the box a bit and become a trully 21st century Government and show the rest how it’s done.
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Exactly, as you’ve touched on there’s so much the government can do to promote various British businesses (like my Canadian tax breaks for film makers etc… example).
It’s not rocket science to realise it would be better for Britain to significantly reduce the costs of doing some forms of business in Britain because overall it benefits British people more than the lost corporation tax etc… The British people employed by a business are not claiming benefits and are contributing to the economy through having more money to spend etc… It’s a win win situation.
Obviously you have to be sensible about it, but the more British and foreign investment into Britain the government can promote the better it is for the country.
I bet you can choose almost any business sector and come up with something the government could do to make things better for both businesses within that sector and Britain.
I couldn’t agree more with what you said below:
“I think it’s about time our politicians stopped thinking they can actually effectively run everything without the using the talents of people we have out their in the country, the expertise we have should be put to better use.”
Governments do seems to think they know better than those who are experts in their field.
David
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Exactly, the politicians should deal with the law/wording etc and let people who know how the sector actually works show them how to make it work better with Government help.
Regardless of how much it costs to pay the people you need the returns will be greater in as you said the income and NI tax take would be higher as unemployment drops so it makes sense to me at least to use the people who know how to get things done in terms of selling British business abroad.
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Its only o.1% its not good news its very bad news we are behind all nations in getting out of recesion and we have over 3 million unemployed and worse debt then if we used a loan shark to lend from
We need the Tories to get us out of this mess caused by Gordon Brown by cutting spending big time
Josh
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Josh as much as I agree with the other posts you have made, I feel the need to correct the statements in this one.
1st – Recovery – As the Government have been saying for over a year (and I’m not a Labour voter) they were not expecting any recovery un till the 1st Quarter of 2010, so this small turn toward recovery in Quarter 4 of 2009 is actually ahead of all predictions so it’s a good thing.
2nd – Unemployment isn’t actually over 3 million it current stands at 2,64 million (a drop over the previous of 2.65) so the unemployment figures are slowly going down.
Having said that they are expected to rise again during Jan/Feb as they do every year due to the ending of the normal rash of Christmas Temporary jobs.
The recovery process will be slow and people need to accept that, it isn’t predicted that a string growth for the UK will happen fully un till 2011 that has been the prediction of Government and economists since early 2009, so things are currently ahead of the predictions.
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It was a world wide credit crunch and recession not just Britain you know!
Although I’m not impressed Gordon Brown didn’t see something like the banking sector disaster on the horizon (especially as he was a chancellor who did well) there was no other country to spot the potential problem and do something about it either, so hard to blame him for something no one else in power spotted and acted on!
The cause of the credit crunch and resulting recession has nothing to do with the British government, it was the greed of bankers (particularly US bankers) and a lack of worldwide financial regulations!
We’d have had a credit crunch and recession under the Conservatives if they were in power as well, (there was no way to avoid it) so to blame Gordon Brown for the recession is short sighted to say the least.
Now you want to argue the Conservatives would have done a better job of managing the countries finances during the credit crunch and recession, that’s up for debate, but not the cause. It was the bankers and their greed.
I honestly don’t know if Labour’s current plan to get us through the recession is the right course of action (I can see they have made mistakes, VAT decrease for example).
I do know if the Conservatives were in power they’d have cut spending SIGNIFICANTLY and services would be hit HARD.
Services hit hard means less money for schools, less money for the NHS, less money for services pensioners rely on, less money for EVERYTHING.
This would have resulted in less money in the economy now and lots of public sector job losses. All these cuts in the public sector trickles down to the private sector as there’s less contracts available etc…, less money in the economy and that means more business failing = more unemployment.
Everyone knows if you close a big business in an area it can have a disastrous affect on the local economy, just think back to when the Conservatives closed various coal mines, some areas never recovered from the loss to their local economy! Britain is all our local economy and every time services are cut it affects the economy in higher unemployment costs (benefits), lower government taxes and NI receipts and less money circulating through the economy as a whole.
I’m 100% certain if the Conservatives had control when the credit crunch hit we’d have a lot more people unemployed today than under Labour, though we might also owe less government debt, but would it have been worth the cost in jobs and lives?
The question then is, is it better to act sooner rather than later at tackling the government debt or hold on as long as possible and have it hurt less now and hope it hurts less over all in the long term?
If the Conservatives cut services and say they are going to save 10 billion in some area. That 10 billion saved is British peoples wages, (not all, but some is) if those people can’t find a new job they have to claim benefits. That’s going to take a big chunk of change out of that 10 billion saved. That 10 billion is no longer being paid as wages and so the government aren’t taking back the 40%+ in tax/NI/hidden taxes, so again it’s not really saving 10 billion. As that 10 billions isn’t circulating through the economy creating more jobs, the people who no longer have a job can’t afford to buy as much stuff every week, they can’t shop at M&S, they have to shop at ALDI/Lidle, they can’t buy clothes from Next, now it’s charity shops, they can’t afford a night out on a weekend, it’s eating in with a cheap tin of beans. They can’t pay their mortgage and their house is repossessed, property prices in the area fall…..
It’s a big domino effect and though some dominoes have to fall, Labour are trying to slow the above sort of cascading damage through the economy while the Conservatives wanted it to run it’s course as fast as possible and I think we can all remember how that went during the last recession that was caused by the Conservatives, not a global event the British government had no control over
David
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I voted Labour because Tony Blair liberated my country from Saddam Hussein. I would not be junior doctor in britain today without Labour.
Shatha
And it’s good to have you here, we need trained Doctors in the NHS